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- BB guns shoot small round metal pellets
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- hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season
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- some show-off shot past all the other skiers on the slope
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- barrels,
- belts,
- blasts,
- blazes,
- blows,
- bolts,
- bombs
- [slang],
- bowls,
- breezes,
- bundles,
- bustles,
- buzzes,
- cannonballs,
- careens,
- careers,
- chases,
- courses,
- cracks (on),
- dashes,
- drives,
- flies,
- hares,
- hastens,
- hies,
- highballs,
- hotfoots (it),
- humps,
- hurls,
- hurries,
- hurtles,
- hustles,
- jets,
- jumps,
- motors,
- nips,
- pelts,
- races,
- rams,
- rips,
- rockets,
- runs,
- rushes,
- rustles,
- scoots,
- scurries,
- scuttles,
- speeds,
- steps,
- tears,
- travels,
- trots,
- whirls,
- whisks,
- zips,
- zooms
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- shooting the lakeside scene while the light lasted
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- suddenly the old, broken-down toaster began shooting out sparks
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- casts,
- discharges,
- emanates,
- emits,
- evolves,
- exhales,
- expels,
- expires
- [archaic],
- gives out,
- irradiates,
- issues,
- radiates,
- releases,
- sends (out),
- throws out,
- vents
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- you've been wanting to say something since this meeting started, so shoot
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- belts up
- [British],
- clams up,
- dummies up,
- hushes,
- shuts up,
- suppresses
- hazel eyes that were brown shot with green
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- shot a congratulatory e-mail to his friend as soon as he heard the good news
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shoots
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of shoots (Entry 2 of 2)
- collected the most tender shoots for the vegetable dish he was making
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- there'd be a shoot of pain from that molar whenever I bit down
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“Shoots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoots. Accessed 25 May. 2022.
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